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(No Model.)

. N. H. BORGFBLDT.

CIGAR BUNG'HING MACHINE.

No. 349,336. Patented Sept. 21, 1886.

iliiil'lillilulmilzllyn WITNESSES.

ATTORNEYS H. PETERS, Ihnlo-Lllhugmphar. Wanhingwn. n. C.

' UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

NICHOLAS H. BORGFELDT, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ADOLPH O. SOHUTZ, ADOLPH LEWYN, MAX MARTIN, AND LEVY BROS, ALL OF SAME PLACE. Y

CIGAR-BUNCHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,336, dated September 21, 188 6.

Application filed May 10, 1886. Serial No. 201,697. (No model.)

To all whom, it'may concern: 7 Be it known that I, NICHOLAS H. Bone- FELDT, a resident of New- York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Oigar Bunching Machine, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical central section of so IO much of a cigar-bunching machine as contains my present invention. Fig, 2 is a top View, part-lyin section, of the same. 'Fig. 3 is abottom view of the same, partly in section. Fig. 4 is a detail top view of the lower ring.

This invention relates to certain improvements on the cigar-bunching machine which is described in Letters Patent No. 331,676, dated December 1, 1885, and in application for Letters Patent known as Serial No. 179,306, filed October 8, 1885.

The object of the present invent-ion is to simplify the construction of the tobacco-distributing disks which-are contained in the main cylinder.

In the drawings, the letter B represents the said cylinder, having the discharge chute O. D is the lower disk, which rests on the bottom of the cylinder B, and E the upper disk, which is attached to the shaft F. This shaft F rests on the screw 0, so that it can be raised and lowered at will, and this screw has a shoulder, b, which carries a'set'screw, d, that rests on the frame A, for the purpose of locking the screw a in any desired position.

According to my present invention the lower disk, D, as it has heretofore been called, becomes a mere annulus with radially-projecting wings 6, while the upper plate, E, has downwardly-projecting tapering-blocksf, securely attached to its under side near its periphery, said blocks being made concave on their outer sides, as shown in Fig. 3, and

adapted to pass between the blades e e of the lower ring, D. By raising or lowering the shaft F, to which the plate E is rigidly at- 5 tached by a set-screw, g, or otherwise, the dis- 1 tance between the plate E and the bottom of the cylinder B can be regulated at will, the blocksf dipping to the desired extent into the'spaces between the blades 6. The nearer the plate E is to the bottom of the cylinder the smaller will be the doses of tobacco that are fed to the chute O.

On the upper side of the plate E is a ring,

h, (see Fig. 2,) which reduces the entrance to 5 the openings or cavities that are on the outer sides of the blocks f. Screws or rods j may extend downwardly from the plate E through eyes i in the ring D, for the purpose of better guidance of the plate E during its vertical adjustment. As the ring D is loose, and as the blocks f of the plate E enter between the blades 6 of the ring D, it follows that the ring D is revolved whenever the plate E is revolved by the shaft F.

I donot in this application claim anything that is claimedin application known as Serial N 0. 201,696, filed May 10, 1886, by myself and A. O. Schutz for patent for cigarbunching machine.

I claim-- The ring D, having outwardly projecting radial wings e 6, combined with the plate E, having downwardly-projecting tapering blocks f, and with the verticallyadjustable shaft F, which carries said plate E, and with the cylinder B, and means, substantially as described, for adjusting the shaft, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

NICHOLAS H. noncrnnn'r.

Witnesses:

CHARLES G. M. THOMAS, HARRY M. TURK. 

